ABSTRACT
Non-Violent Islamist Extremism is characterized by the absolute, eternal separation and non-identity of the Muslim and non-Muslim and the Disavowal and the sub-humanization of the Infidel. In his book the Age of Extremes, the historian Eric Hobsbawm explained that the 'short' twentieth century from the First World War to the fall of the USSR was the age both of nation-states and the ideological extremes of Communism, Fascism and Nationalism. As far as religious Worldviews are concerned the secularization thesis has undoubtedly been proved wrong by the 'long' twenty-first century: the religion of Islam and others, notably evangelical Christianity, are as important worldwide as ever before; the individualization thesis, however, holds true. What is less obvious than the overt mutual 'othering' of extremists are the covert, cultural hinterlands that incubate these extremisms that many citizens of different types allow or even quietly encourage.
